MD Junction: Online Support Communities

If you're looking for medical information, many sites can inform you about symptoms to different illnesses and treatment options, and even suggest doctors or medical professionals to see for certain diseases. But while there's a lot of medical information...

If you're looking for medical information, many sites can inform you about symptoms to different illnesses and treatment options, and even suggest doctors or medical professionals to see for certain diseases. But while there's a lot of medical information on the Web, there aren't a lot of places people can go just to talk, to share experiences, or get help from people who have been through what they may be going through. MD Junction is a community designed to offer people that resource. The service has different support groups for different conditions, and real people behind the screen in all of them willing to share their experiences and stories to help others. MD Junction fills a pretty significant gap that I've seen in health care Web sites.

The mission of MD Junction is to provide online support groups where people who have or are affected by various illnesses can come together to discuss their personal experiences with a specific illness or condition, the experiences of their loved ones, and to ask questions and share information. You'll find people who are exploring symptoms for the first time, and people who have been diagnosed, all together in the same group to comfort one another and share information from doctors to symptoms and suggestions for treatment.

Membership at MD Junction is free, and once you've signed up you can browse the different groups available for different conditions. You can join as many as you like. There are groups for people with different types of cancer, hypertension, Lyme's disease, autism, panic attacks, and even for those who prefer holistic and alternative therapies or care. If you don't see a group that applies to your condition, you can always start your own.

Each group has its own home page, discussion forums, and "activities" page, where members can send one another virtual hugs, prayers, salutes, and supportive short messages. The home page handles the bulk of the medical information, including a short description of the condition for those who may not know about it, articles of interest, and links to more articles, the forums, and more information.

Once you join the group, you can interact with other members, post your own questions and concerns to the discussion group, and begin reaping the benefit of the experiences of everyone else. All of the communities are active, and new members are asking questions, old members are discussing their recent trips to the doctor, and others are recommending physicians in their areas and medications for their conditions. You can benefit from the majority of MD Junction's content without signing up, but to post your own comments and join a group, you have to sign up.

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